stead
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1. stead - Noun
2. stead - Verb
3. Stead - Proper noun
Meaning
Place, or spot, in general.
Place or room which another had, has, or might have.
A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.
A farmhouse and offices.
To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.
To fill place of.
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On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.
Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us”-or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for having a heart to bestow. I often feel that I myself am without one, and possess in its stead merely a heart shaped stone.
Scientists try to eliminate their false theories, they try to let them die in their stead. The believer-whether animal or man-perishes with his false beliefs.